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Monday, 15 September 2008

BBC London Investigation Into The Exploitation Of Migrant Workers On The Olympics – UCATT Reaction

Alan Ritchie, General Secretary of UCATT, said: “Migrant workers seeking construction work in Britain are highly vulnerable to exploitation. Unfortunately I fear that further scams similar to this could re-occur on the Olympic site. The only way to prevent this is to remove casualisation from the Olympics. Workers must be employed directly by companies and large scale hiring via agencies must be stamped out.”

Mr Ritchie, added: “This case once again underlines the chronic need to extend the Gangmasters Licensing Act to the construction industry. In the sectors they cover (agriculture, food processing etc) the GLA have excelled at cracking down on exploitation. It defies belief that the Government is unwilling to extend this protection to construction workers.”

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